A member of the audience at MCC Theater’s new musical “The Wrong Man” messed with the wrong actor during the show’s previews.
During a recent performance, the show’s star, Tony-nominated Joshua Henry, spotted someone in the crowd using their cellphone and “snatched it right out of the fan’s hands, midsong, without slipping out of character or missing a beat, to wild applause from the rest of the audience,” a theater source said.
A Broadway insider who happened to be watching the show added, “It looked like it was perfectly choreographed … He’s like an athletic Patti LuPone.” (Stage legend LuPone famously ripped a phone from a fan’s hands and walked offstage with it when she saw the person rudely texting at her “Shows for Days” at Lincoln Center in 2015.)
In this case, we hear Henry gave the audience member their phone back after the show. New York Times theater writer Michael Paulson, who was in the crowd, tweeted of Henry’s phone grab: “A patron was using a phone in the front row — texting? taping? — and Henry seized the phone (while singing) and tossed it under the risers without missing a beat. The crowd applauded.”
Meanwhile, at another Broadway show, playwright Jeremy O. Harris recently defended Rihanna for texting during his “Slave Play.”
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